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Wildfires in Cémaco

Cémaco, Panama, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 169 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.1% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Very low 29° · 69 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 27° · 84 % · 25 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 25° · 92 % · 34 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 25° · 86 % · 35 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 76 % · 24 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 27° · 82 % · 28 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 83 % · 28 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

169
hectares burned
0.1 %
of its area
3
fires
3,047
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Cémaco

  1. 98 ha Pinogana fire, 13 April 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 1,221 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 17 ha Pinogana fire, 13 April 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 1,015 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 54 ha Pinogana fire, 12 April 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 1,521 ha in total · 10 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Milton Solano, of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, on ArcGIS online, GIS Laboratory. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, 2012 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).